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Meet Climate Vault’s 2023 Carbon Dioxide Removal Innovation Award Recipients

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Climate Vault is proud to announce the first two recipients of the Carbon Dioxide Removal Innovation Award: Carbon Lockdown and Octavia Carbon. Hear from each winner’s co-founder, as well as members of the Climate Vault Tech Chamber, to discover how each of these innovative solutions can drive a meaningful impact against the climate crisis.

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Digging into the Terrestrial Pathway with Carbon Lockdown

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CDR projects in the Terrestrial Pathway take place on land and utilize natural geologic, ecologic, or biologic processes. In this webinar, hear first-hand how Carbon Lockdown’s project will collect up to 5,000 net metric tons CO2-equivalent of sustainably-sourced woody biomass and sequester it in their proprietary "wood vault." You’ll also learn from experts in the field about the policy landscape for Terrestrial solutions and how they see this pathway developing over the next decade.

Speakers

  • Ning Zeng Co-Founder and Head of Science, Carbon Lockdown; Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland
  • Steve Pacala Frederick D. Petrie Professor Emeritus of Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University; member of Climate Vault Tech Chamber
  • Brynn Esterly Head of Carbon Removal Solutions, Climate Vault
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  • Martin Freimüller Co-Founder and CEO, Octavia Carbon
  • Daniel Schrag Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at Harvard University; member of Climate Vault Tech Chamber
  • Brynn Esterly Head of Carbon Removal Solutions, Climate Vault 

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CDR projects in the Technological pathway include highly-engineered solutions that function in collaboration with, or completely independent of, natural environmental processes. In this webinar, discover how Octavia Carbon is leveraging Kenya’s unique geology to develop geothermal integrated DAC machines that filter CO2 from the atmosphere. You’ll also learn from experts in the field about the policy landscape for Technological solutions and how they see this pathway developing over the next decade.

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Unlocking Technological Innovation with Octavia Carbon

About the Webinars

Through Climate Vault’s RFP for Innovative Carbon Dioxide Removal Projects, novel CDR technologies are evaluated to receive Climate Vault Tech Chamber Approval and the Carbon Dioxide Removal Innovation Award. The program helps stimulate the growth and development of impactful CDR solutions.

The 4-part RFP assessment process includes a comprehensive evaluation by the Climate Vault Tech Chamber, a group of world-renowned science, energy, and policy experts whose collective expertise and rigorous due diligence process results in only the most effective and credible projects being selected to receive the Carbon Dioxide Removal Innovation Award. The Tech Chamber is led by former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with experts from MIT, Princeton, Harvard University, and UC San Diego (Scripps Oceanography).